The Bush Doctrine

I finally got to sit and watch some of Charlie Gibson's 20/20 interview with Sarah Palin. I had heard one of her blunders was that she didn't seem to know what The Bush Doctrine was when Charlie asked her about it. I watched the segment and thought she responded as appropriately as a VP candidate could. But, I thought to myself, "I don't even know what the Bush Doctrine is." Is it okay to admit that? Does everybody else and their dog and their Liberal Book Club friends know what the Bush Doctrine is? I quickly went on Wikipedia.org for a quick definition.... Here it is:

"The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various related foreign policy principles of United States president George W. Bush, created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The phrase initially described the policy that the United States had the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves, which was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan.[1] Later it came to include additional elements, including the controversial policy of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes that represented a threat to the security of the United States, even if that threat was not immediate (used to justify the invasion of Iraq), a policy of supporting democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the spread of terrorism, and a willingness to pursue U.S. military interests in a unilateral way."

So now you know....question is, do you know what the Clinton Doctrine was? Do you know the Monroe Doctrine? What about Nixon, or Carter? For details visit
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-United-States-Presidential-doctrines